SGI-Tapes and CD-ROM

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2 total messages Started by Victor Quevedo Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:54

#64

Author: Victor Quevedo
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:54

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I am interesting in finding out if you can connect various Tape Drives and
CDROMS to a SGI Indigo.  

	1.	Will a Sun compatible Tape 1/4" (150) drive work on
			an SGI?
	2.	Will a Sun, Apple, NeXT CDROM drive work on an SGI?
	3.	If they do work will they be able to read the SGI
			specific inst format?

I have access to several Sun/NeXT/Apple CDROMs and Sun Tape units. I would
like to know if they would work.

-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@neptune.calstatela.edu

Re: SGI-Tapes and CD-ROM

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Author: Dave Olson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 07:00

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In <1993Jan6.175433.3702@nic.csu.net> vqueved@neptune.uucp (Victor Quevedo) writes:

| I am interesting in finding out if you can connect various Tape Drives and
| CDROMS to a SGI Indigo.  
| 
| 	1.	Will a Sun compatible Tape 1/4" (150) drive work on
| 			an SGI?

Almost certainly.

| 	2.	Will a Sun, Apple, NeXT CDROM drive work on an SGI?

The Sun drives will work on Indigos, at least for most people (not
all) for normal use, and for some people, for software installation.

The Apple brand drives are hopeless, they violate the scsi spec
too much.  The NeXT drives might work for filesystem stuff; and
possibly s/w installs on the r4k Indigo, but not installs on other
systems.

| 	3.	If they do work will they be able to read the SGI
| 			specific inst format?

Yes, as long as they are on an SGI system.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

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